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Reply to Opening Moves - Strategy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

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Reply to Opening Moves - Strategy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Like the original poster said, the opening moves are decisive and this strategy game makes no difference. To give a meaningful answer to the question one needs to make (a lot) of assumptions. We are talking single player here. Some of the factors: - Game setup chosen - Size of map - Number/personality/AI of opponents - Game speed settings - Early scouting - Proximity of an opponent, location of pirate base - Metal, C

Reply to Opening Moves - Strategy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

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Reply to Opening Moves - Strategy in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

- Proximity of an opponent, location of pirate base - Metal, Crystal or Credits rich/starved environment - Invulnerable conquerable mines (->Vasari Scout) - Topography (layout of phase lanes, chokepoints, wormholes) - ... In general in 1v1 you would probably be best advised to take an offensive stance. I think 1v1 could be called a zero-sum game: e.g. if player A loses 3 frigates and player B loses 3 of the same

Reply to Gas Prices: $12-$15/gallon in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Let's look at the positive side of exploding oil prices, in that it forces an inevitable change, that should have happened long ago. Oil is so vital, that without it our economy and society stops to a halt - a fact every child knows. Why then are we so foolish to let the oil take us hostage? Why do our governments trust in guessed, supposed, extrapolated or faked numbers about remaining oil reserves and production capacity? Everybody talks about the post-industrial information age, but

Reply to No custom race in TA under Vista... in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, it is a regular game. I'll place my hopes on the next patch and further trial&error testing.

Reply to No custom race in TA under Vista... in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The version is 1.91.021 downloaded from StarDock Central. Just to be sure, I repeated the procedure you describe: uninstall GalCiv2:TA via SDC, deleted folder My Documents\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor and reinstalled. No change, at least issue 1) remains. If the uninstall of the beta is broken, then maybe are there more "zombie files" elsewhere? What information would be helpful? What can I try?

No custom race in TA under Vista... in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I experienced some problems when running GalCiv2:TA on Windows Vista SP1 (also tested on XP). Runs on a Q6600 with GeForce 8800 GTS and all drivers up to date. The first thing I tried was to uninstall everything and delete all game folders, then reinstalling. First I have to disable "Hardware T&L" and "Enhanced ship rendering" to have it stable, but I can live with that. Major problems remain: 1) Can't select custom race! The icon for the choice simply does not appear. <

Reply to Iconians have no government techs?! in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

So it seems to confirm that the Iconian tree has no government techs. Is this by design or just an omission? Would be fine, if one of the devs could make this clear. I always regarded the government forms as a core game feature, like ethical alignment is. @Tototot: The Precursor Achive and Library are awesome. This is why I thought it would be a good idea with my custom super breeder race. The (only) morale building gives 25% bonus but costs quite a bit of maintenance (5bc), so being at

Iconians have no government techs?! in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I can't find the government techs of the Iconians. Same problem for custom race with Iconian tech tree.

Reply to Bought ship does not appear when mil. prod. at 0% in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

This is also incoherent with buying buildings, which get finished even if the social production is 0%. You even get all of the benefits of the building immediately. For social production: Why doesn't the game, here too, just reduce the price to 1 BC and the building is finished the next turn? - because it makes no sense! I'm not suggesting to have the ships bought and ready to go on the same turn, but when the ship is bought, I expect it to be delivered in the next turn. Don't mind bein

Reply to United Planets suggestions in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

This is a kind of general problem of voting systems when several opions are eligible. In your example with starbase modules, where there are 4 options, sometimes the vote can be decided by as little as 25% + 1 votes, when all other players spread their votes on the remaining options individually. The most democratic way (means: the majority of votes rules) of doing it would be to eliminate the least wanted option one after one by majority in successive voting turns. If there are x optio

Bought ship does not appear when mil. prod. at 0% in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

When I have my military production at 0% (=zero shields) and buy a ship, it is NOT finished the next turn. This isn't logical. If there is at least one shield going to military prodution, the ship comes out of the starport as expected. Don't quite remember if all GalCiv2's (vanilla, DA, TA) show this behaviour, but this can hardly be the way it was supposed to work.

Reply to Luck in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

And what is the effect of 50% luck? (25% from ability plus 25% from political party)

Reply to unable to download Twilight of Arnor through Stardock in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

If you're using Windows Vista you should start Stardock Central via the context menu item "Run as Administrator" (right-click on the executable/shortcut).

Can't build starbase denfenses with Thalan (Twilight of the Arnor) in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Didn't go through the entire tech tree, but the Tech "Laser" should give a new starbase defense module that I could never build. Noticed similar issues with modules of other races, namely the module "Fighting Drones" or something, that was never buildable. I'm using the lastest version downloaded from Stardock Central.

Reply to Dark Avatar keeps crashing in Dark Avatar Stardock Forums

Just found the solution. It was indeed a graphics problem. Good old trial and error. I can live with the workaround, since Twilight of the Arnor is around the corner... thanks for your help! What solved my problem: disable both 'enhanced ship rendering' AND 'hardware transform and lighting' Thanks for your help!

Reply to Dark Avatar keeps crashing in Dark Avatar Stardock Forums

@JMiddleton: The machine is brand new, well ventilated and the GPU is not overclocked. UT3, Crysis, Hellgate, CoH, GoW all run seamlessly. Can you recommend me a tool to monitor GFX card temperature? @kryo: I disabled the 'enhanced ship rendering' option and restarted the game. Unfortunately it didn't help. The fastest way to make it crash is to set up a new game, then return to the main menu and do the same again. Normally it does not survive the second try. @CalifDu

Dark Avatar keeps crashing in Dark Avatar Stardock Forums

I'm having problems running Dark Avatar (english version) on my PC. The game crashes after some turns or game starts. The original GalCiv2 (german version) runs relatively stable after the patches. Using Windows Vista 32bit. Here's the debug.err file: